Deacon's Bike

**Norman** · #41 (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 09:14 PM

Deacon
Don't do the weed eater prop thing it will eat you alive and want more.
That guy is asking for it big time. Props and people don't mix well. There is blood and body parts going to be flying if that is done long enough.

deacon · #42 (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 09:21 PM

thats what my doctor says about motor bikes lol

deacon · #43 (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 09:22 PM

I took mine apart already. The one I bent the drive shaft on but i left the piston attached to the bottom end. I plan to reuse the jug if I have to build more of thise little monsters/. Main problem i have now is that I dont weld lol///

**Norman** · #44 (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 09:54 PM

you want mine with the roller and all the carb is bad other than the cooling fins knocked off the rest is ok.

deacon · #45 (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 09:59 PM

Not yet norm Im gonna have tosee if this works I have two engines now

deacon · #46 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 11:04 AM

This is the strangest carb i have ever seen. It will flood at the drop of a hat. I had to stop wearing a hat around it.

If I am wrong somebody tell me please since I am trying to understand.

1. If I touch the throttle while starting the engine it will flood.
2. If I work the throttle while the engine is stopped the engine will flood.
3. I haven't tried to drag start this configuration yet. So I have no idea what continuous turning of the engine will do. It might help it start it might not.
4. I did buy and install a bike cable and brake lever as a throttle.
5. I did add a compression spring to the rear of the carb.
6. I did verify that the engine is grounded to the frame now.
7. I have test fired the engine today finally after flooding it again today.

Things still to do..
1. Hook up the kill switch
2. finish building a mount that will put even pressure on the drive wheel without ruining the tire or the engine.
3. test start the engine while it is attached to the wheel.
4. test the drag start capabilities.

deacon · #47 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 12:15 PM

I'm going to give this weed eater engine one more chance, if it won't start I'm going to mothball this project. I had it started earlier today and adjusted the idle down. Now it won't start at all. I'm about to give up on this thing.

Big Joe · #48 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 01:55 PM

Deacon
If that is the carb from the engine i sent you, there is no telling what may be wrong with it. I have minus zero confidence in the repair place that worked on the engine. As I said before they had taken the carb from my engine and used it somewhere. They were supposed to have replaced it with a rebuilt carb. I doubt that. I was told not to take the engine there for repair, but it was so much closer than the other place. Good luck.

deacon · #49 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 02:24 PM

No I switched the carb your engine had because it would die when I tried to rev it up. That seems to be a common problem when they need to be rebuilt. I cleaned it good and just stored it. This is the carb from the engine I distroyed. Your engine runs fine till I put a load on it. It won't drag start at all. I have no idea what that is about. It should drag start if it will start with the rope which it will do some of the time. When it does start it runs really well. I don't have a clue what is wrong. Tomorrow I'm going to pull out the last of my 31cc engines and give it a shot. Switch out parts just to see if I can drag start it.

It can be done I know because the one I screwed up started just fine that way. They might have been right on your engine low compression so why bother putting a good carb on it. It sounds like what a shop might think.

That is about what I think now, but I can use the part from it so don't worry. I bought it for the parts It was a bonus that I could make it run so easily. I am well satisfied if nothing else I am learning a lot about engines.

I have nothing but time on my hands anyway.

I have a really nice engine mount from it so I can just switch out engines anytime I want. I have learned a lot from all this. I have really nice drive wheel as well so I'm progressing just progressing slowly.,

Your engine might well have worked fine with the centrifical clutch and the trimmer head. I don't see any reason it wouldn't have. I'm beginning to think that maybe this isnt the best idea after all. I think it might really need a clutch of some kind to distribute load. I'm going to rethink that.

you know model planes and boats dont have the same load as a bicycle wheel. The motor should work of course the other one did but this one would be fine for some applications im sure.

maybe someone with more knowledge than me can give me an answer I sure could use it.

deacon · #50 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 04:19 PM

I have officially quit the weed eater bike program. I know I'm the guy who says never give up but I have evaluated this project and decided it just isn't worth it. I am still going to build the clown bike, but I'm going back to electric for it. Tomorrow I will fit it out with an electic motor and be on the road by afternoon. Without a helmet lol.

The gas bike will still be the bike of choice for errands since it has more range and more power, but I'm building the clown bike as a backup. When the car is gone I need something really dependable in case the gas bike dies. At least to run around until I get a new kit or whatever. So the clown bike goes electric